Saturday, July 30, 2011

Billy Long's addiction is aversion to the truth


StLtoday has this editorial: Billy Long's addiction is aversion to the truth

Someone on his staff should explain the Internet to U.S. Rep. Billy Long, the cowboy-hat-wearing Tea Party Republican from Springfield, Mo.

Mr. Long seems to not understand that his statements, often typed on Twitter, end up being consumed by the general public. For instance, he created quite the firestorm recently when, shortly after British singer Amy Winehouse was found dead, he compared her battles with drug addiction to congressional addiction to spending.

Mr. Long said he couldn't imagine that his ill-timed statement would be taken in a bad light, and then he issued an apology referring to Ms. Winehouse as a "true artist." We're guessing that the "conservative values" Republican hadn't actually paid much attention to the painfully gritty lyrics of Ms. Winehouse's songs before he suddenly became her biggest fan.

Contradictory statements are par for the course for Mr. Long. A couple of weeks ago, he said that "we are not going to raise the debt limit." Then he said that "cut, cap, balance" was the only way to raise the debt limit.

And on Thursday, he said he would back House Speaker John Boehner's plan that completely erased the lines Mr. Long previously drew in the sand.

Truth-telling, it seems, is not Mr. Long's addiction.
Ah, but we've been trying to tell you all that for over a year now.

7 comments:

rangem said...

bumpkin billy much like roy the crime boss blunt would not know the truth if it bit them in the ass

The CDM said...

billy long and his friends/supporters aren't out for the best interests of the 7th district. They aren't job creators, they're job killers.

Wake up, long voters!

Anonymous said...

He would tell a lie when the truth would better serve him.

Anonymous said...

The whole country is laughing at this bozo. How many different media critics have to label him the "worst" before the 7th district gets it?

Actually though, I think he's ignorant and those who elected him, as usual, are damn proud of it --- he's a feather in their conservative caps.

Anonymous said...

Billy Long is The Worst Person in the World. It's true.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcY5ygG1tis

rangem said...

i wonder how many days out of bumkin billys vacation is he going to spend working helping the people of joplin oh it not front page smoozzing he wont be there

rangem said...

i wonder how many days out of bumkin billys vacation is he going to spend working helping the people of joplin oh it not front page smoozzing he wont be there